Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

What I have is a personal relationship with God.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence... Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.